Henry Clay Caldwell

Henry Clay Caldwell was a United States federal judge and Union Army officer.

Caldwell was born in what is now Marshall County, West Virginia, in 1835, in what was then Indian territory, and was largely selfeducated, a circumstance credited with the cultivation of a homespun philosophy. He moved with his parents to Iowa in 1837, where his father, Van Caldwell, once a wealthy Virginia farmer, took land in the Black Hawk Purchase at Bentonsport and operated the first licensed ferry on the Des Moines River his mother was Susan Moffit Caldwell. He was educated in the common schools of Iowa, and began reading law in the offices of Knapp and Wright in Keosauqua, Iowa, at the age of fifteen. He was admitted to the bar in 1857, according to some sources, and became a junior partner in the firm.

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